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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
Gail Hershatter
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Hardback. What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? This title explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 472 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 780. Rural Women and China's Collective Past. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. 472 pages, Illustrations, maps. What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? This title explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 36. Weight: 780.
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting - even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of ... Read more
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting - even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
472
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Asia Pacific Modern
Condition
New
Weight
779g
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520267701
SKU
V9780520267701
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About Gail Hershatter
Gail Hershatter is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of many books, including Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Women in China's Long Twentieth Century, both from UC Press.
Reviews for The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
"A landmark in women's history and the history of China."
James C. Scott London Review Of Books "Remarkable... Hershatter has a complicated story to tell about women's experiences in mid-twentieth-century China." Ms Magazine "If you want to be reminded of how moving history can be, then read this book." New Books In Gender Studies "The Gender of Memory is ... Read more
James C. Scott London Review Of Books "Remarkable... Hershatter has a complicated story to tell about women's experiences in mid-twentieth-century China." Ms Magazine "If you want to be reminded of how moving history can be, then read this book." New Books In Gender Studies "The Gender of Memory is ... Read more